Archives International Auctions Sale 40 2 Sessions -Tuesday April 11th, 2017 Click Lot Title to Bid

Archives International Auctions - Sale 40 114 April 11,2017 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com SCRIPOPHILY - CATTLE AND RANCHING 699 699 American Cattle Trust, 18xx (ca. 1880-90) Specimen Stock Certificate 100 Shares, Green border. Eagle vignette. Modeled largely after the Standard Oil Trust. The concept and purpose of the Cattle Trust by Eastern capitalists was to organize and control the western cattle market, erase range and water rights and monopolize the cattle industry and wipe out the independent cattlemen. Due to internal squabbling at every level of the company, it fell apart and went bankrupt in 1890. Historic certificate of a dark and ugly period of the western cattle and cattle ranching industry. Red specimen overprints. VF condition with light toning of paper. Rare.����������������������������������������������������������Est. $450-600 SCRIPOPHILY - CONFEDERATE BONDS Louisiana 700 700 State of Louisiana - Confederate States of America, 1863 Issued Bond. Shreveport, Louisiana. March 1st, 1863, $1000, 8%, Cr#62F, Issued and uncancelled, Black on beige thin paper, pelican feeding young at top, S/N 3467, Text states “An Act to raise Money for the State Treasury;” approved January 23, 1862, Appears VF but there are splits at folds that could be reinforced as well as ink burn under the date at the bottom right. Signed by Thomas O. Moore as Governor, 7 coupons attached, rare bond in any condition. ������������������������������������������Est. $300-600 SCRIPOPHILY - ENTERTAINMENT New York 701 701 Metropolitan Concert Co., 1880 Stock Certificate. New York, 1880, 10 Shares, I/U, Black printing without underprint, New York arms at center, S/N 316, VF-XF, Conceived by Charles Lanier and Rudolph Aronson and supported by Jesse Seligman, J.P. Morgan, Morris Jesup and others with James P Lowery as President. Constructed in 1880 on Broadway, 41st and 7th Avenue, the present site of the Broadway Theatre. It included a sliding roof and a French restaurant and seated in total about 3000 people with 50 musicians in the orchestra. Later became a skating rink and theatre but finally demolished to make way for the new Broadway Theatre.����������������������������������������������������������������Est. $325-500 Pennsylvania 702 702 GrandOpera andMarket HouseCo., 1926 IssuedStockCertificate. Reading, Pennsylvania. 150 Shares, I/U, Black on off white paper, Opera house on left, printed on a ca.1880’s form, S/N 121, VF condition. Popular topic. �������������������������������������������������������������������������������Est. $200-300 SCRIPOPHILY - FOOD & DRINK 703 703 Doctor Gray’s Great Eastern Bitters Manufacturing Co., 1880 Stock Certificate. Philadelphia, PA. 50 Shares, I/U, Black on green under print with red capitalization in middle, Red seal, Steamship in middle of title, XF condition, rare and extremely attractive certificate. (From the collection of John E. Herzog).�������������������������������������Est. $200-400